Yeah, cause he takes all the fun parts of their jobs (catching bad guys, killing civilians) and replaces it with paperwork after they wait another hour for the guy in the web to be removable.

Everyone say it with me: Cops are the only source of ethical bacon /j

I would love it, but it would break the Canon of Discovery. No one is supposed to know that the Discovery, or her crew, ever existed.

Misremembered. The Discovery was “destroyed” to protect the secret of her going into the future. Thanks for the clearing up!

Holy shit! This is it, the actual comic I read was a copy of JLX. I thought I had temporary insanity as a kid, reading a comic about Mr. X, leader of a teenage group of mutants, whose actual identity was the Martian Manhunter.

Huh. TIL

“I didn’t eat the onion, but it does look yummy”

It also doesn’t say that. It says that Private firms are seeing a slowing of increasing rents, a further slowdown than the Feds are showing in the consumer price index. Prices are still going up, faster than before the pandemic, but not quite as fast as the fed shows them currently rising.

Yeah, because you’re giving up federal power for… a bigger state budget? Not really a great trade.

I can’t reply fully tonight (inebriated) but this is a fantastic rebuttal. I didn’t mean to excuse Japanese War crimes, just add some context to the meme.

Hiroshima was the first non-top-secret detonation of a nuke. Literally no other country knew we had those weapons until we erased a city with it. They were theorized and a known possibility, but that’s a far cry from actionable intelligence or even a plausible suspicion.

That leaflet specifically mentions the destruction of Hiroshima. It was a wide spread fear campaign AFTER they dropped the first bomb. There was no forewarning.

Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in retaliation for US’s oil embargo. The Oil Embargo was due to Japan invading mainland Asia. Japan invaded mainland Asia due to… fascism. Imported from Germany.

But let’s clear something up. Pearl Harbor was an attack on military assets, the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were war crimes meant to crush opposition.

US dropped the a-bomb on Japan to crush any remaining resistance from Japan, and as a threat to the wider world (namely the USSR). There was no prior warning given so no civilians were able to evacuate. Between 110,000‐210,000 civilians were murdered by the dropping of those two bombs.

(They don’t help anyone, they enforce the law. Which is just a set of rules that the powerful enforce on the masses via the threat of violence)

I’m going to give one that might be controversial. It was the first high attention news event after the internet made us more connected. It allowed for oddball ideas to get passed around faster than ever before, shaping a “coherent” narrative faster than old media could handle.

I… don’t think that’s the case. Last year was the year of labor wins across the board. Like, I don’t understand how to parse what has happened in the world since with this statement. Media, especially corporate owned media, is always going to be somewhat antilabor. One bad interview from one person did not impact labor’s perception in any meaningful way.

This is a plot point in the movie “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.”

Well, I mean, they probably can, but team sports, ya know. We all do it, make bad things about the “other” and good things about “us”. Just, not realizing that the people you stand with can do “bad”, cause all humans are capable of doing “bad”.

You have no idea how many people don’t understand that. Even if you tell them, they don’t get it.

(“You have no idea” is used as an intensifier here. I don’t know what you know. I’m neurodivergent and feel the need to clarify)

(It’s almost like the United States is the empire/ old republic)

Nah, pipe is better cause it’s shorter. Vertical Bar takes too damn long, no one got the time for that.

Your head might need the rest from the glasses on your head, but when you take your glasses off your eyes have to work harder to compensate. So, the idea is sound, but the explanation is wrong.